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Q: Are you now, or have you ever been, the POTUS?
A: The Fifth!

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NYT Will U.K. Rejection of Scottish Gender Bill Bolster Independence Movement? The intervention from London angered Scottish politicians, but it’s not clear that backers of independence can use the issue to their advantage. By Stephen Castle Jan. 27, 2023 LONDON — When Scotland united with England a...

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The GUARDIAN Tiny radioactive capsule lost in Australian outback found by side of 1,400 km stretch of road Coin-sized radioactive device, missing for more than two weeks in WA, posed a significant public health risk Wednesday, 01 February 2023 A tiny radioactive capsule that was lost in the Austral...

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My favorite Western.

A group of disparate passengers battle personal demons and each other while racing through Indian country.

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Expires today, February 1st

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I’m all in for Trump but admit, a MTG/Santo/Subito ticket looks intriguing. It would shatter the Ass Ceiling.

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my 50yo nephew said "I have women asking me to 'have a baby with them'". What sorta guy talks to his aunt that way? If this is what passes for Australian manhood, little wonder the Family Court whacks it down hard. Sounds to me like your Family Court is nothing less than a National Treasure. A pric...

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Trump's starting to 'look good'!? Like ‘God the Father’ in Milton’s Paradise Lost , Trump looks good precisely because he is so bad. Pretentious, pompous, priggish. I am looking for the MAGA G.O.P. to put him forward him in 2024. They are something else aren’t they?—right out of the Cretinaceous Pe...

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Half a century ago, this entertaining spoof was spun off the real thing, aided by a star-studded cast that includes Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway and Geraldine Chaplin. The score is by Michel Legrand. This romp is full of fun-to-watch hi-jinks. Streaming curr...

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Next to Dreyer's St. Joan, this, in my view, is the greatest religious flick ever made.

Now streaming on Kanopy

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Director Donald Cammell
Cinematographer Nicolas Roeg

A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star's decaying mansion.

Very much of its time.

Now streaming on TCM
Expires: February 4th

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A great flick from the late Sixties! I just finished watching his two early masterpieces, La Notte and L’Avventura.

A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.

Streaming now on TCM.
Expires: February 27th

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Reconnected. I hadn’t realized just how great this novel is till this time, I started listening to it read aloud.

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First time viewing last nite of one of the greatest films I have ever seen. Period. The acting of its amateur schoolboys is stupendous. Streaming now on TCM. Directed by the great, great Louis Malle.

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Fences was recomnended to me by a student in AP English, who also lettered in baseball, about 15 years ago. I, who had never heard of the playwright, read and assigned it from that day forward in AP and IB lit. with great success. Screened the flick with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. DW planne...

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George Szell rarely recorded modernist works, but he did conduct them from time to time, e.g., Easley Blackwood who died this month (April 21, 1933–January 22, 2023). R.I.P.
Szell-Cleveland Orch. - Blackwood Symphony 2 (1960), Fantasy for Orch. (1965).

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Still another P.O.V. from this week's New Yorker:

The Police Folklore That Helped Kill Tyre Nichols https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-co ... re-nichols

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And why they cry out for their mothers when they're facing an existential crisis (which is a haunting thought in these cases). Complex. Yes, exactly; mother is the nurturer but there's more - dad is often not on even the scene!! Send not to know for whom the Belle trolls. She trolls for thee. :lol:...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:23 pm
And why they cry out for their mothers when they're facing an existential crisis (which is a haunting thought in these cases). Complex. Yes, exactly; mother is the nurturer but there's more - dad is often not on even the scene!!

Send not to know for whom the Belle trolls. She trolls for thee.

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NYT To Fix Its Problems in Ukraine, Russia Turns to the Architect of the War President Vladimir V. Putin is on his third overall commander in Ukraine. But his military’s fundamental issues have not been addressed, Western officials say. By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt Jan. 28, 2...

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Additionally, at least where I come from, my car is subject to: 1. annual re-registration 2. camera ticketing for speeding violations 3. random vehicle safety inspections 4. mandatory safety checks every two years . . . and until very recently (October 2022), 5. random auto insurance checks As a tea...

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The no adult supervision “college” follow up to the "high-school'' hi-jinks in Dazed & Confused. But whereas D & C was unforgettable, this flick is anything but. Disappointing film.

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Putin didn't move an inch with Trump there - and still wouldn't. Dear Belle , your ultra-nationalist dogmatism is rearing its pitiful head once again. Not to mention your blithely toeing the Putin propaganda line by asserting without a shred of substantiation that "there are millions of Ukrainians ...

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I am screening this comedy classic in my cinema studies class this semester. Directed by the great Richard Linklater: Slackers , Boyhood, the 'Before' Trilogy , and School of Rock , to name just a few. The flick has become legendary (it is now in the Criterion Collection), and my students love it. L...

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I am a huge fan of of this director [The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971)] and this Western is one of his best. Starring Randolph Scott and Joel McCrae as two aging lawmen, a trope found in many Westerns.

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I binge watched all 6 of these great action flicks on Amazon Prime. Tom Cruise deserves an Academy Award. Waiting for MI VII to appear this summer.

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NYT CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK For the First Time Ever, I’m Optimistic About Women in the Movie World It’s not just the volume and range of films centered on female characters. It’s also a shift in consciousness that has made feminist concerns mainstream. By Manohla Dargis Jan. 26, 2023 In a good movie year...

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Starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. Revisiting this great flick after seeing Top Gun: Maverick . Showed Platoon to a group of 17-year-olds after we read Tim O'Brien's 1990 The Things They Carried . Their s...

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Caught this one on the fly during its last nite streaming on TCM. Unbelievable cast for one of the great Chekhov plays. James Mason, Simone Signoret. Vanessa Redgrave, Denholm Elliott, Eileen Herlie, et al.

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You bet. USA higher education is the envy of the world. Any university here with a modicum of reputation draws heavily on international students.

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Just the standard terms of insult ... Do you not read your own posts? Like Old Faithful Geyser, you spew out insults to any and all here on a daily basis, then resort to more of the same when challenged. neither comments constitute an argument of any kind . Whoa there! When you go back to school yo...

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Just the facts, Milady. According to the UK’s just published Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2023 , 7 of the 10 top universities in the world are located in the U.S.A. Of those 7, 4 happen to be in the ivy League. Unsurprisingly, of its top 25, not one, zero, nada, is located in...

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newyorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/23/prince-harry-memoir-spare-review Electrified by outrage—and elevated by a gifted ghostwriter—his blockbuster memoir “Spare” exposes more than Harry’s enemies. Review by Rebecca Mead https://media.newyorker.com/photos/63c05e98e99d89b838ada3b6/m...

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CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/politics/pence-classified-documents-fbi/index.html FOX NEWS https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vice-president-mike-pence-discovered-classified-documents-indiana-home USA TODAY https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/24/pence-classified-documents-home/11...

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WALL STREET JOURNAL Biden’s Green Subsidies Are Attracting Billions of Dollars to Red States GOP-leaning states, many with ample sun, wind and available land, are luring clean-energy projects boosted by legislation their representatives opposed Republican-leaning states are attracting most of the c...

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Reconnected with this famously gritty NYC caper last night. A William-Friedkin-directed thriller starring the great actor, Gene Hackman with his trademark porkpie hat (Hackman is still with us at age 92). The first movie with an 'R' rating ever to win an Academy Award. The car chase scene is to die ...

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Chinua Achebe’s great novel, Things Fall Apart tells of the disruptions caused by the incursion of Anglican Christian missionaries and British colonists and resource extractors (e.g., palm oil) into the land of the Igbo (i.e., what is now Nigeria) in roughly the second half of the 19th century (from...

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What have you failed to notice about Biden's mental decline and totally embarrassing 'seniors' moments'!!! I've been around geriatrics (in-laws) and recognize all the signs of declining cognition. Then you must have noticed that, like you dear Belle , dodderers are unable to stop repeating the same...

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Menotti: Amahl & the Night Visitors. David Syrus, cond., Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1998. Jay Records 2005. FWIW, the Jay Records' website states this is the *only* stereo recording currently available. How true that claim is I do not know. https://ia600902.us.archive.org/11/items/cd_gian-carl...

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One of my favorite films. Capturing the mores of small town U.S.A. as well as those of Canada where it is set. A minor gem of a movie.

Streaming on Kanopy

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This Portuguese flick may be the single most lyrically shot film I have ever seen. The anamorphic widescreen visuals are stunning.

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Fascinatingly shot and disturbingly performed. This film deals with a young woman who enters a mind-numbingly robotic workplace.

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Starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson (I am big. It's the pictures that got small). A hundred-year-old ‘lost’ film that was found and restored only in this century. The narrative is centered on a mercenary marriage and explores the possibility of adulterous love, but the values of a century ...

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from NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ETHNOGRAPHY https://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/histcontextsd.htm The majority of all people enslaved in the New World came from West Central Africa. Before 1519, all Africans carried into the Atlantic disembarked at Old World ports, mainly Europe and the offsh...

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from American slavery: Separating fact from myth https://theconversation.com/american-slavery-separating-fact-from-myth-79620 by Daina Ramey Berry Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin Economists and historians have examined detailed aspects of the enslaved...

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Mr. Ron, Mr. DeSantis, was mean to me and hostile toward me. Not aggressively, but passively, because I was Black. Like in history class, he was trying to play devil’s advocate that the South had good reason to fight that war, to kill other people, over owning people—Black people. He was trying to ...

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If you have never seen this classic, do yourself a favor and stream it this weekend on Kanopy in honor of the late Martin Luther King. It is part of the Criterion Collection and has been placed on the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Hard to believe this flick was shot in 1972-73 for a ...

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Just screened this narrative film masterwork for a group of thirty 12th graders. Many of them had never seen it. They were transfixed. One of Morgan Freeman's greatest acting performances.

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One of the the most beautifully shot of all American films. Starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shepard, with affecting voiceovers by Linda Manz. Gorgeous cinematography by Néstor Almendros and Haskell Wexler. As a bonus, a great musical score by Ennio Morricone.

Streaming now on Kanopy free.

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This essay is probably way beyond the pay grade of those who contribute here at The Pub, but this astute, leading Australian journalist identifies the dark underbelly and counter-intuitive nature of globalization; the ultimate Faustian pact of the Western World. Four big factors are driving the wor...

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Ardern has no sociological imagination; she cannot fathom a world beyond victimhood and climate catastrophism and the inevitable balm is cure-all virtue signalling, astronomical public spending and patronizing condescension. As for economic progressivism - she wouldn't know the meaning of those two...

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